The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-09-03
News of the Week.

The HeSSian lily mas Deeu iayihS hdSte
fields of wheat and barley in England.
Mrs. Paradis, French woman, died al
Grosvenordale, Connecticut, last week, aged
ITO years.
The Boyd Manufacturing Company's mill
and more than twenty dwellings, in Levanna,
Ohio, were destroyed by fire on Monday.
The excursion yacht Monarch was capsized
by sauall in Bristol channel on Friday oil
last week, and fifteen persons were drowned.
Fifty of the 800 inmates of the county aims
house at Reading, Penna., are sick with q
virulent form of cholera morbus, and two oil
them have died.
Thirty thousand people attended the tri
State picnic and exhibition at Williams Grove,
Pa, on Wednesday. Gov. Beaver and Others
delivered addresses.
| Slight earthquakes were felt in various
places in South Carolina and Georgia last
Saturday morning, and again on Sunday night
at Atlanta, Georgia.
The widows of seven clergymen occupy q
single pew in Detroit church; but, it is ex-
planned, there are only two OF them, one the
widow of three, the other of four divines.
The leaders of the Socialistic Labor party
are to hold a conference in New York on
Sunday night Several of them favor the
nomination of John Swinton for Secretary OF
State.
Twenty three of the Bald Knobbers who
had pleaded. guilty of misdemeanor, were
taken into court at Ozark; Missouri, on Satur-
day, ard fined an average of $50 each, and
put under 5000 bonds to keep the peace.
Eight members of Engine Company No. 2,
of Plainfeld, New Jersey, were arrested in
that city on Sunday on charge of arson.
One of them, George jackson, confessed that
they had set fire to number of places, using
kerosene for the purpose.
The whole county east of Mexico, Mo-, was
on fire on Wednesday. But for a cornield
thousands of acres would have been burned.
The loss is very heavy. The fire caught from
an engine on the Chicago and Alton. There
has been no rain since the second of July.
John Golden, aged "A years, was killed on
Monday morning in Dayton's nut and bolt
works, at Newport, Kentucky. His arm
caught in belt and dashed heavy pair of
shears, which he held in his hand, against his
head, causing instant death.
While farm hands where thrashing on the
farm. of Lyman Curtis, of Flint, Mich, on
Tuesday, the grain stack caught fire and the
steam boiler exploded, killing Daniel Steeger
and severely injuring William lockwood,
John Bennett and three young women who
were assisting.
An Albany thief was himself the loser by
one of his thefts- although not captured, He
stole what apparently was sack of coffee,
from in front of a grocery, and paid team
ster two dollars to hurriedly carry it to place
of safety. On opening the booty he found
that instead of coffee it contained sand.
The heaviest rain of the season at Raleigh,
Il Al. O.. l..
ing From three to nine o'clock the rainfall
was A inches. Great damage was done to
all the crops on the low grounds, and washouts
occurred on the North Carolina and Raleigh
and Augusta Railroads.
Some time ago in Syracuse, Kan, when the
nomination of candidates for councils was
under consideration, it was suggested, as q
Joke, that ticket composed entirely of women
be prepared. The joke went step further,
the ticket was prepared and now at the cleo
ton just held it has come out successful.
Robert Bonner drove Maud S on the three.
quarter mile track on his farm at Tarrytown,
! New York, on Saturday, in what is claimed
to have been the fastest mile that has ever
been made to wagon. The first halfwas made
in 1.08I, and the last half in 1.043a, making
the mile in 2.134. Mr.. Bonner weighs sc
pounds over the regulation weight, which is
$50 pounds.
Albert Howell, 80 years Of age, q letter
carrier, was held in $500 bail in Boston on
Monday on the charge of stealing letters. Il
| is alleged that he took letters from the boxes
of other carriers before they had been put in
the pouches, and he is believed to have been
stealing for six months. He was ostenta-
tiously pious, keeping Bible in his desk and
reading it at noontime.
w. ]. Burk, the defaulting Treasurer Of
Galveston county, Texas, who disappeared
| last November-a shortage of $40, 900 having
been found in his accounts appeared in the
office ofthe Associated Press in San francisco
on Friday of last week, and said he desired tc
return to Galveston and plead guilty. He
returned $13 200 worth of bonds, and exhih
tied receipt showing that he had shipped the
bonds by express
a crippled child, which had been barbaf.
| ously abused by its stepfather, John Water
| side, at Smiley, near Monroevile, Indiana
| died on Sunday from the effects of the orle
| treatment it had received. The mother also
treated the child with horrible cruelty and
neglect, and both parents took special de
light in manning it. The stepfather is in Jail
and the mother will be placed there as soor
as officers can find her.
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taken steps to carry into effect Secretary
| Lamar recent order directing tho restoration
! to settlement and entry Of the unimproved
indemnity selections of the California ant
| Oregon Railroad Company in California. The
road runs from Roseville, near Sacramento,
to the California and Oregon line, a distance
| of 296 miles, and the order of restoration, j
is said, will affect about 10000 acres.
Albert A. Meade shot and killed Harvel
Meade, Joe Downing and Mr.. Hands on Fri
day Of last week in a fight over the Las Luce,
milling and mining property at Good Hope
New Mexico, in which they we're jointly in
terested. Fred. Meade, after being fired Al
five times by Albert A. Meade, wrested
Winchester rifle from him and shot hin
through the heart A. eoroner's inquest re
suited in the acquittal of Fred. Meade.
The Secretary of the State Board of Agri
culture of Illinois has received from Professor
| Forbes, the State Entomologist, q discourag
ing report in reference to the distribution o.
the chinoh bug throughout the State. Th,
Professor says; at ia very destructive ia
thirty counties, occurs in large numbers IL
sixteen others, in moderate numbers in sew.
enteen, and in numbers net especially inju
rious, but sufficient to threaten harm another
year, in twenty-five, while from thirteen coun
ties it is reported as practically absent"
A wonderful clock is nearing completion a
Waterbury, Conn. 1t has been FIVE years il
construction, will be eighteen feet high, eigh
feet wide and seven feet deep. The moor
and planets are given in I'll their phases.
| Several hundred figures represent distinguish
ed men, and are carefully carved from gooc
| likenesses. The signers of the Declaration o.
Independence and Lincoln's Cabinet at the
signing of the Emancipation Proclamation
are exhibited. Bible, Shakespearean and
other historical scenes are also acted by this
wonderful time-piec
A riot occurred at a colored Sunday school
celebration in Decatur, Georgia, on Saturday
| afternoon, caused by liquor, A drunken
eolored man went through the crowds Of
women and children fourishing and discharg-
| ing a revolver. The managers sent for off,
GERS, and Marshal Heard, Sheriff Austin and
others appeared. The drunken man fred al
them and ran. He was pursued by the posse
and cornered, when he fired on his pursuers,
and other colored men who had gathered
fired on the whites from the rear The crowd
of whites and blacks by this time numbered
several hundreds, and in the fusilade Marshal
Heard and colored man were shot dead, and
Thomas Shivers, white, was MORALLY wounded.
1t was reported from Galena, Illinois, hast
week, that the fish in many Of the streams of
that section have died by the million, and the
few that are left are rapidly following suit.
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